There comes a time when any organization outlives its usefulness and
the membership has other interests and it is time for it to rest in
peace, but also most organizations have periodic struggles in which
there is a need to recruit new blood, so that there are enough
participants for the organization to be viable.

While people in some groups may share some mutual interest in other
topics, sometimes those other topics belong in separate groups.

I am in several groups with overlapping interests, and overlapping
challenges. Do you think the science fiction fandom community would
be interested in this group? Some of them anyway. So seek out an
exchange of links with other groups like Yahoo N3F and

http://efanzines.com/

I am also in the Yahoo group RFF = Reading for the Future.
This is a group that seeks to help educators expose future
generations to good writing about the future, mainly science
fiction. Do you suppose that same audience might be inspired by some
of the news this group looks at?

I think there are some parallels between terraforming Mars and
engineering a workable government in Iraq, but perhaps that topic
best kept in the Yahoo group TYR, which also addresses other down to
earth topics like
How come the price of oil is going up
The environment

I think it is unfortunate that different politicians promote things
that others oppose, so anything proposed by one is at high risk of
being scrapped after a couple of election cycles. I saw with the
International Space Station that every 2 years each new crop of
representatives in USA, and in other nations, had to change
something, just to show they were DOING something. Conseuently I
thought it would never get done, unless the time to implement
ingredients could get significantly shorter than election cycles ...
ie. get the job steps completed before the next crop of politicians
sabotage it.